1990 New England Patriots

If the 2007 edition of the New England Patriots is the best one, as many have declared, and they have already had the best start in franchise history, then the worst team the franchise has fielded was the 1990 team.

In fact, the 1990 New England Patriots may be one of the worst teams in NFL History, behind only the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers who went 0-14 - a winless season.

After 9 games of the 2007 season, the Patriots scored 355 points. Throughout the entire 1990 season, the Pats scored 181 in their march toward a 1-15 season. Their only win: a 16-14 squeaker past the 7-9 Indianapolis Colts in the second game of the season.

That years performance was doom for head coach Rod Rust's head coaching career - it was his one and only opportunity in the NFL and he was dismissed at the end of the season. He had been the defensive coordinator for the 1985 Patriots - the first Patriots team to advance to the Super Bowl - but left after the 1987 season. He rose to the position of head coach one more time - in 2001 when he joined the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes; the defending Grey Cup Champions fired him six games into the season.

John McKay, the head coach of that abominable Buccaneers team, went on to be head coach of the Bucs through 1984 amassing a 44-88 records and exactly 2 winning seasons - one of which was the strike shortened 1982 season when he went 5-4.

The practice following that squeaker win, the season came derailed.